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information; but there is evidently a disposi¬ 
tion to view the prospects for the future in a 
favorable light, more especially as regards 
Wheat, it being known that the breadth of land 
under that grain is greater than in ordinary sea¬ 
sons. This circumstance is calculated to have 
considerable effect; and whilst it is in many 
cases admitted that there are appearances of 
blight and other defects, it is at the same time 
asserted that the extra breadth is likely to 
cover, or more than cover, any deficiency which 
many be expected to arise from imperfections, 
which are not by any means general. 
We have taken considerable pains in our in¬ 
quiries respecting the state of the Potato, and 
are happy to say that thus far the plant appears 
to be free from disease. This is certainly the 
case as regards the early sorts, which are now 
being dug, the tubers come up clean and sound. 
At this period of the year, it is impossible to 
foretell the changes which may take place week 
by week, and we must therefore confine our 
remarks to matters as they are at the time of 
writing. This being understood, we feel in¬ 
clined to think that the prospects thus far are 
satisfactory for Wheat, Barley, Oats, and Pota¬ 
toes. Beans have been attacked by the fly, and 
Peas are not free from insect depredators. Hay, 
we have already said, is light in quantity, and 
of inferior quality. 
lUarluts. 
Remarks. —Flour advanced the past week 
from 25 to 62£ cts. per bbl., dependent on the 
quality. Corn is 3 to 4 cts. higher per bushel. 
Pork and Beef a little lower. Wool is active, 
but no advance in the price. 
With the exception of a small rise in Sugar, 
there is nothing new in Southern products. 
Money as high as ever, and Stocks unprece¬ 
dentedly low and dull of sale. 
The Weather has been excessively hot again 
the past week, the thermometer ranging from 
95 to 100 degrees of Farenheit for several days. 
Sunday and Monday we had slight showers. 
This is just the kind of weather for Indian Corn, 
but too hot for almost every thing else. The 
crops continue to come in well, and are promis¬ 
ing, with slight exceptions. 
Monday , 3-J- o'clock P. M. —Just as we go to 
press, we receive, by steamer Pacific, a Mark 
Lane Express, (London,) of July 10th, which 
states that a few nights previous had been cold 
and wet, and that there were fears entertained 
of the Blight. It states, however, that prices 
had not yet been affected by these untoward 
appearances. 
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PRODUCE MARKET. 
Saturday, July 22, 1854. 
The prices given in our reports from week to week, are 
the average wholesale prices obtained by producers, and not 
those at which produce is sold from the market. The vari¬ 
ations in prices refer chiefly to the quality of the articles. 
The weather has been very hot for a few days past, and 
consequently the prices of many articles range higher than 
they otherwise would. The market is well supplied with 
new potatoes from Long Island and New-Jersey. There is 
also a good supply of apples from Ncw-Jersey and Virginia, 
which sell at $3@$3 50 per bbl. Peas are rather scarce. 
We saw several baskets of quite small and scarcely ripe 
peaches. Cucumbers are a drug. There is a great demand 
for blackberries and whortleberries, but scarcely any in 
market. Gatherers say it is too hot to pick berries now. 
Gooseberries, currants, and cherries are nearly out of sea¬ 
son. 
Vegetables. —Potatoes, $2 25@.$3 50 $ bbl. ; Beets, 
$3@$3 50 ^ hundred bunches ; Carrots, $2 25® $3 ; White 
Turnips, Q5@$2 75 ^ bbl.; Yellow, $3; Onions from 
Wethersfield, (Jt., $4 50©$G hundred bunches ; Toma¬ 
toes, $2 $ basket; Green Com, (Burlington,) 50c.@75c. 
hundred earn ; Sweet, 87%c.@$l; String Beans, 50c. 
@75c, $ bushel; Cucumbers, 60c.@75c. $ bbl. ; Cabbage, 
$6@$7 $ hundred; Squashes, 37%c. <p basket ; Lettuce, 
50c.@75c. $ hundred bunches. 
Fruits.— Pears, 50c.@$1 basket; Peaches, $1@$2; 
Blackberries, $3 5ll©$4 tg bushel; Whortleberries, *2 50 
@$3 ; Currants and Cherries, 6@,7c. f) lb. 
Eggs, 18c.@,20c. tp doz.; (Ohio,) 16%c.@.17c. ; Dairy 
Butter, 18%c @20c.; Cheese, 9c.@lt)c. 
NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
Mr. Chamberlin reports beeves 7%@.10 cents ; cows 
and calves, $25@$50; sheep, $2 50@$6 00 ; lambs, 
$2 50@$5 ; veal calves, 4, 5@6c, 
Mr. Browning reports beeves 7%@9%c. ; cows and 
calves, $$30 @ $45 ; sheep, $1 50 $57 ; lambs, $2 00 
$5 00 ; veals, 4%@5c. live weight 
Mr. O’Brien reports beeves 7@9%c.; cows and calves 
$30@$35 ; veal calves, 4,@.6c. live weight. 
Monday, July 24,1854. 
The earlier part of the day was quite pleasant, the burn¬ 
ing rays of the sun being shut out by clouds. Before noon 
a gentle rain set in which yet continues, (3 o’clock P. M.) 
There is to-day a very small supply compared with several 
weeks past. All those cattle in pasture one week ago, as 
well as those unsold in the market, were disposed of during 
the week. The numbers received during the past week at 
the principal yard (44th street) is 2141, against 2347 the 
previous week; and the number ill market to-day, 1990 
against 2347 last Monday. The cattle are much less hooked 
and banged than those sold a week ago, and are in rather 
better flesh. The general quality is about an average, 
though there are some miserable lots of animals in cattle- 
yards, and called beeves, but a disgrace to the name, as 
they are only skin and bone, and not much of that. On the 
other hand there are two or three very fine lots. One of 
these is owned by Messrs. Ware and Parker, of Fayette 
county, Ky., and consists of 124 Durhams and Grades. 
Could every farmer in the country look upon this drove side 
by side with several other lots in to-day’s market, we 
should not need to write another word for five years to 
come on the importance and profitableness of raising supe¬ 
rior breeds of cattle. Before leaving Kentucky this drove 
averaged 933 pounds net weight, estimating 57 lbs. net 
to the 100 lbs. live weight. The expenses of bringing them 
to market was about $14 50 per head. 
Messrs. Hurd, Culver, and Hoffman also have a fine drove 
of 95 cattle from Illinois. 
There is much complaint of an unexpected raising of the 
cattle freight on the Erie Railroad, from $77 per car load 
(about 15 head) to $88. We think this an unwise move on 
the part of the road, for we had hoped to see this become 
the great cattle route between the West and this city. To¬ 
day the drovers seemed inclined to choose the Northern 
route hereafter. The worst complaints made are in regard 
to some delays in sending cattle forward from Columbus, 
Ohio. One drover, Mr. S. M. Baker, of Clarksburg, Picka¬ 
way county, Ohio, had his droves separated at Columbus, 
only a part arriving for to-day’s market, and of those start¬ 
ed nine are missing. Of course some delays and accidents 
will unavoidably occur, but the cattle trade between the 
West and the Atlantic seaboard is becoming one of great 
importance, and it will be good policy for the different inter¬ 
mediate railroads to introduce as soon as possible the 
greatest practicable regularity and dispatch. It is as im¬ 
portant for animals to come by a time table, as for travel¬ 
ers. A day’s delay of 100 cattle often throws them over a 
week’s sales, involving an expense for keeping alone, of 
from one to two dollars per head, besides not meeting the 
market day they were intended for, which often make a 
difference of $5 or more per head. 
At Browning’s we noticed a lot of 30 extra sheep, raised 
by Mr. John W. Taylor, of Canandagua, New-York, 
at which place they took the first premium last winter 
These are all 2 years old wethers, and are called Leicesters, 
though few of them appear to be pure blood. There is a 
considerable cross of South-down and Merino. These are 
held at $10 a head, and are certainly worth twice as much 
as some that sold for $5. The remark made above in regard 
to Messrs. Ware & Parker’s, cattle will apply with equal 
force to these sheep. 
Much the larger number of beeves sold for 9%@9%c. The 
buyers say 10®llc. We do not think, any sold for above 
I0%c, taking our own estimate of weight. Some very poor 
cattle sold for not above 8%c, though the buyers called 
them 9%c. Some of these ought not to bring over 3c. a 
pound, and then to be used only for dog meat. 
In estimating the price their cattle will bring, feed¬ 
ers and stock raisers should bear in mind that every one is 
partial to his own stock, and that what he may be inclined 
to call good or extra, will fall into quite a different rank 
when brought into the market with several thousands. 
There is no greater cause of disappointment to farmers 
than this over estimate of the quality of their own cattle. 
One farmer in New-Jersey brought in from 40 miles distant, 
a lot of cattle which he thought “tip top,” but to his cha¬ 
grin and loss, found that they were scarcely medium when 
placed along side of many other droves. 
Tlie following are about the highest and lowest.prices ; 
Beeves, 8%@10% cts. per pound. 
Cows and calves, $30@$45 Extra, $00 
Veals, live weight, 4@,6c. per pound. 
“ gross, $2@$3 50 per head. 
Sheep, $2 @$7 per head. 
Lambs, $2@.$5 50 
Swine, corn fed 4%@.4% cts. per pound. 
“ still fed, 4®4%c; 
Washington Yards, Forty-fourth street. 
A. M. Allerton, Proprietor. 
RECEIVED DURING 
T1IE WEEK. 
IN MARKET TO-DAY 
Beeves, 
2,141 
1,990 
Cows, 
18 
Sheep and Lambs, 
843 
Swine, 
204 « 
Veal Calves, 
286 
Of the above there came by the Hudson River R. R., 572, 
Hudson River Boats, 68; Erie R. R., 1090 Beeves, Har¬ 
lem RaHroad, 38 Beeves, 18 Cows and Calves, 843 Sheep ; 
286 Veal Calves. 
New-York State furnished 159 beeves ; Ohio, by cars, 650, 
on foot, 217 ; Kentucky, 553 ; Indiana, 97 ; Illinois, 276 
RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. 
Chamberlin’s. 
Browning’s. 
O’BRIEN’S 
Robinson st. 
Sixth st. 
Sixth St 
Beeves, 
265 
291 
150 
Cows & calves, 201 
65 
97 
Veals, 
160 
42 
40 
Sheep, 
3,042 ) 
4,511 
Lambs, 
2,763 ) 
Mr. James McCarty, Sheep Broker, at Browning’s, Sixth 
street, reports sales of 1182 Sheep and Lambs for $4320.— 
They were sold in the following lots and prices. 
36, for $90 50; 79, $258 50; 46, $192; 75, $218; 159, all 
sheep, $797; 111, $304 25; 110, for $307 75; 75, for $263 ; 
47, $186 75 ; 53, $211 50; 117, $476 50 ; 16, $50 ; 42, 
$114 50; 100? $373 ; 56, $180 25 ; 15, $62 75 ; 12, $41 25 ; 
and 33, $144 50. Average prices of Sheep and Lambs, 
$3 67 per head. 
Sales of Sheep and Lambs at Chamberlin’s, Hudson River, 
Bull’s Head, Robinson street, by John Mortimorc. 
Sheep. 
Price per Head. Price per lb. 
. by carcase. 
200 
$4 25 
8% cts. 
178 
3 87% 
8 
230 
3 50 
8 
71 
3 40 
8% 
48 
3 70 
8% 
100 
3 25 
8 
134 
3 50 
8% 
100 
4 25 
8% 
40 
5 50 
9% 
49 
3 37% 
8 
Lambs. 
41 
3 75 
13 
26 
3 50 
1 % 
48 
3.00 
12 
73 
3 50 
12% 
The prices of Sheep and Lambs are about the same as 
last week, but owing to the inferior quality of the stock of¬ 
fered, it has been one of the worst and most troublesome 
weeks ever experienced by salesmen, for the butchers will 
■ot buy more than they are really obliged of an article that 
does not suit ; but as for good Sheep and Lambs they have 
sold readily for good prices, and I think will continue to do 
so. But the supply on hand is abundant of Sheep and 
Lambs, both of a quality that is barely good enough to sell 
to a farmer for feeding 
Mutton is selling in Washington Market by the carcase 
from 3 to 8 cents per lb.; Lamb from 9 to 12%, as in quality. 
John Mortimork. 
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PRICES CURRENT. 
Produce, Groceries, Provisions, Lumber, Src. 
Ashes. 
Pot, 1st sort, 1853.$100 lbs.5 75 @5 81% 
Pearl, 1st sort, 1852.5 50 @- 
Beeswax. 
American Yellow..$ lb. — 29 ® 30 
Bristles. 
American, Gray and White.— 40 45 
Coal. 
Liverpool Orrel.$ chaldron,-@ 0 50 
Scotch..@- 
Sidney. 7 75 @ 60 
Pictou. 8 50 @ 
Anthracite_: .$2,000 lb. 6 — @ 6 60 
Cotton, 
Upland. Florida. Mobile. N.O. V Terns. 
Ordinary. 8 8 8 8 
Middling . 9% 9% 9% 9% 
Middling Fair, 10# 10% 10% 11 
Fair.. 1! 11% 11# 12% 
Cotton Bagging. 
Gunny Cloth. . .$ yard, — 12%@13 — 
